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Racist content on US server 'within UK jurisdiction'
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| The Court of Appeal rejected that claim,
| saying that according to a precedent set in
| a previous case domestic law will apply so
| long as much of the activity in question
| took place in the UK.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/racist_content/
Aussie net censorship turning Chinese
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| Recent DDoS chaos on the Australian internet
| may have been great fun for all involved â
| but behind the good-humoured anarchy lies a
| growing concern that the government really
| does have a dark and Big Brotherly vision
| for the future of politics in the country.
|
| As reported in The Register this week,
| groups exasperated by government plans for a
| mandatory firewall that will censor far more
| than the child porn material claimed,
| finally resorted to long-promised direct
| action, with a short and successful DDoS
| attack on government sites and offices.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/14/aussie_firewall_latest/
Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube
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| Google says it will not "voluntarily" comply
| with the government's request that it censor
| YouTube videos in accordance with broad
| "refused classification" (RC) content rules.
|
| Communications Minister Stephen Conroy
| referred to Google's censorship on behalf of
| the Chinese and Thai governments in making
| his case for the company to impose
| censorship locally.
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http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-baulks-at-conroys-call-to-censor-youtube-20100211-ntm0.html
Conroy calls for piracy code of conduct
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| In the wake of iiNet's recent court win,
| Minister for Broadband, Communications and
| the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy has said
| that he wants the film and internet
| industries to sit down and try and work out
| a code of conduct to prevent pirating of
| copyrighted works rather than working
| towards legislation changes.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Conroy-calls-for-piracy-code-of-conduct/0,130061791,339300874,00.htm
Google Says No To Australia's Request To Censor YouTube Videos
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1147118148.shtml
Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/02/iceland-aims-to-become-an-offshore-haven-for-journalists-and-leakers/
Iceland Wants To Become A Hub For Free Speech Journalism Protection
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| I think this is a great idea -- and the
| world needs places where free speech is much
| more seriously protected, but I do wonder
| how it will work in practice.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/0357158144.shtml
Olympics Using Bogus Copyright Claims To Take Down All Videos Of Fatal Luge Crash
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| It's a horrible situation all around, but it
| looks like the International Olympic
| Committee is trying to stifle the whole
| thing by using copyright claims to take down
| videos on YouTube, saying that only those
| who paid for broadcast rights can show the
| video. Now, this could be part of a pre-
| arranged effort by the Olympics to try to
| stop any Olympics videos from hitting
| YouTube, but it shows the problem with such
| a blanket policy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100212/1527178155.shtml
Olympic luger from Georgia dies after crash
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| Flirting with 90 mph on a $100 million track
| pushing speed to the outer limits, the luger
| from the republic of Georgia tilted his head
| slightly forward as his sled climbed the
| high-banked wall.
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http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14390486
Multiple crashes at luge track
http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/2010wintergames/luge/Multiple%20crashes%20luge%20track/2556409/story.html
US and EU call for release of well-known Chinese dissident
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| Tania Branigan reports from Beijing on the
| 11-year sentence handed to Liu Xiaobo Link
| to this video
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| The US and European Union today renewed
| calls for the immediate release of high
| profile dissident Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese
| court upheld his 11-year-sentence.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/11/us-eu-china-political-dissident
Prop. 8 Defenders Say Plaintiffs Attacked âOrthodox Religious Beliefsâ
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| Now, weâve got a bit more to throw at you,
| LBers. One of the lawyers handling the case
| for the defendants (that is, defending the
| constitutionality of Prop. 8) sent us a note
| recently attacking the plaintiffsâ approach
| in the case. Specifically, Brian Raum, the
| head of marriage litigation for the Alliance
| Defense Fund, has accused the plaintiffs and
| their lead lawyers, David Boies and Ted
| Olson, of unfairly attacking religion.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/02/10/prop-8-defenders-accuse-plaintiffs-of-attacking-orthodox-religious-beliefs/
Recent:
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
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| Authorities in the northwestern Chinese
| province of Qinghai have handed a six-year
| jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who
| returned from exile to make a documentary
| about his homeland, Tibetan sources say.
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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/filmmaker-01062010111100.html
How online life distorts privacy rights for all
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| People who post intimate details about their
| lives on the internet undermine everybody
| else's right to privacy, claims an academic.
|
| Dr Kieron O'Hara has called for people to be
| more aware of the impact on society of what
| they publish online.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8446649.stm
US company sues China for Green Dam 'code theft'
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| An American company has filed a $2.2bn
| (Â1.4bn) lawsuit in the US accusing Beijing of
| stealing lines of code from its internet
| filtering software.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8442771.stm
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